Is the name of freedom, you can kill other people

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Good luck. The government's got tanks, jet fighters, bombers, artillery, missiles, mines, armoured personnel carriers, automatic weapons, bombers with laser-guided ordnance and more common sense than the people who would try an insurrection with legal weapons.

A coup sounds like more fun, though.

They didn't do it for fun. They didn't get their ideas about the world from video games.

I'm sensing residual butthurt from past threads.

I'll be more convinced of the Catholics' relatively newfound belief in pacifism when they abolish the office of the inquisitor. If God does not condone killing for any reason, then the Pope has a lot of explaining to do, and he should apologize to Turkey in Arabic or Turkish for stopping their invasion of central Europe, and the Mongols for aiding the Byzantine empire and defending the holy land!

Violence can solve many things- especially repelling violent people. This can apply to nations as well. Look at even WWI- it may have been primarily about which European monarch could prove he had the biggest dick, but even then, it still had the benefit of the fall of the Ottoman empire.

If the government wants to avoid a civil war, it's a no-brainer: leave certain hot button issues alone! The second amendment is not dust about national security and home defense, it was also intended to keep the government honest and accountable to the voters. Our constitutional convention understood that democracies eventually face a crisis and so far have all so far inevitably failed at some point. They also understood that corrupt and tyrannical people have a tendency to rise to power. Man were they ever right about that! Our founders wanted to make sure there was one final line of defense against this- the ability to remove them by violent force.

Many liberals, especially in urban and suburban areas tend to find this scary. However, you probably wouldn't notice a violent uprising much. It can probably be arranged that iphone service will not be affected so you can play angry birds and follow Snooki and the Kardashian sisters on Twitter, I'm sure it will be the government's doing if the internet was affected since cutting people's access to facebook, porn, and ebay would create a second rebellion, the malls are a great haven to keep hipsters occupied, and I don't see any reason why dancing with the stars or American idol would need to be interrupted because it's best to keep the clueless and braindead...well...clueless and braindead. A conservative-libertarian society would offer basically the same trappings to the sheep as a socialist government, but with more to offer for those that take up their civic responsibility. If someone wants a government to baby them, protect them from their own stupid decisions, give you everything as long as the government can keep up deficit spending, and protect you from feeling offended, there already is no shortage of countries that do all that. They can move to one of those places.

In the name of your freedom you can kill someone who is trying to deprive you of your freedom by force. It is simple self defense.

ruveyn

The law, however, might not take so large and liberal an interpretation of the words, "self defence."

I'm sensing residual brain cells rattling around in a weak, empty mind, making some sort of squeeky sound that means nothing.

particularly if the law is written and enforced by freedom hating tyrants.

ruveyn

You know, I really don't want to get into the usual circle of mental masturbation that starts up whenever the how of forcibly resisting the state is discussed, but I've always found the "the government has X superweapons" argument to be fairly specious. All those things might work great for fighting other countries on their soil in an open war situation, but are a bit indiscriminate to use in a low intensity ideological conflict where you can't tell your own people from your enemy and any infrastructure damaged is your own. I don't even imagine open fighting, it would be more like people affiliated with the offending regime wouldn't be able to safely leave their homes.

I'm sensing residual brain cells rattling around in a weak, empty mind, making some sort of squeeky sound that means nothing.

Violence should not be taken lightly, but those who denounce it totally are equally reprehensible.

Freedom is overrated.

Social justice is underrated.

I don't see how they are incompatible .